Politics
October 24, 2008 -
Will this be "The Year of the Black Voter?"
October 24, 2008 -
Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel is reporting that a computer programming glitch is responsible for the high number of voter registration checks Georgia ran this year through the Social Security Administration.
October 24, 2008 -
A settlement reached this week will allow a minister to continue registering eligible voters currently incarcerated in Alabama's prisons.
October 23, 2008 -
We're less than 12 days until the election. Which Southern states can still claim the coveted title of "battleground" in the presidential race?
October 23, 2008 -
It's been one week since the start of early voting in North Carolina, a leading battleground state this year.
October 23, 2008 -
A conflict has arisen in Florida between elections supervisors and the Secretary of State over how to deal with new voters whose registration hasn't been verified.
October 22, 2008 -
As the world witnessed during Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, disasters have a way of revealing underlying social inequalities. That lesson is now being repeated in the wake of last month's disaster along the Gulf Coast.